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So, black rappers, black people, and other such and such groups are going to use some offensive slang ant it wont be counted as offensive, but when a white person uses them it will be SO bad an offense that it will cause them to be fired.

"Black people"? I'm black. My family and friends are black. We will not tolerate the use of those words in out presence. I think you meant to say "some black people."

Rappers? Yep, many do use those words. And believe it or not, both Al and Jesse, as well as many other influential blacks like Oprah, Rosa Parks, Bill Cosby and Chuck D have been been going after misogynistic and violent lyrics for some time

So why is this stuff so pervasive in rap music? This movie address the question, and the answer is simple: because it sells. Kirk Franklin and Yolanda Adams can produce all kinds of uplifting music, but as long as Eminem and 50 Cent sell 10 million albums, people are going to make music in that vein - and by the way, once a rap album crosses the 750,000 sales mark, it's not just black people buying it.

Just like in the Imus case: follow the money. The same people who are suing grandmothers are also the ones facilitating the production, marketing and distribution.

Actually, the decline in murder rates corresponds to increased economic performance under Clinton.

You can't really prove anything by correlation. Quite a few things changed over that tiime period. Levitt and Dubner, in "Freakonomics" make a pretty persuasive case that the decline in crime is due to easier access to abortion.

What we can say, however, is that if violent TV, movies, and videogames do not actually reduce real-world violence, then any pro-violence effect of these influences must be small relative to other social, economic, and demographic factors

Mixing violent TV shows with a culture of guns is dangerous. The stats show it - 3x the murder rate.

So are you claiming that the US did not have a higher murder rate than Canada prior to violent US TV shows? It's a bit risky to compare statistics collected with different methodology, but this chart doesn't seem to support the notion that a greater crime rate in the US than Canada is a particularly modern phenomenon. Looking at these data, one would tend to ascribe the difference in crime rates to long-standing cultural differences rather than to modern entertainments.

But video games are to violent!

The Inter-net says so so it must me true!

A search on google finds: ESRB Game Ratings - Game Rating & Descriptor Guide

But what happens are these ratings aren't enforced during purchase. I have here an article: Minors Buying M-Rated Games

Just like if the theaters don't enforce the rating, children can sneak in or in this case purchase video games that weren't intended for their age.

Think about it: one of these lawsuits come out every year. Whether it's a band being sued, a movie, or a video game, these lawsuits NEVER win.

So if the lawsuits never win why are they filed? Because it's usually easier and cheaper for the game manufacture, movie studio or band to just pay out a million to settle the case, and that's why they file, in the hopes the defendant will just settle and they'll become instant millionaires.

I think that's crap, and the lawyers and courts should be held responsible for their negligence, otherwise we're just going to hear more of these frivolous lawsuits.

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